For The Black Man There Is Only

For Violence, Like Achilles' Lance, Can Heal The Wounds It Has Inflicted.

Certain Things Need To Be Said If One Is To Avoid Falsifying The Problem.

I Came Into The World Imbued With The Will To Find A Meaning In Things, My Spirit Filled With The Desire To Attain To The Source Of The World, And Then I Found That I Was An Object In The Midst Of Other Objects.

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.

The Life Of The Nation Is Shot Through With A Certain Falseness And Hypocrisy, Which Are All The More Tragic Because They Are So Often Subconscious Rather Than Deliberate ... The Soul Of The People Is Putrescent, And Until That Becomes Regenerate And Clean, No Good Work Can Be Done.